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CVE-2025-38566

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2025
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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sunrpc: fix handling of server side tls alerts

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sunrpc: fix handling of server side tls alerts Scott Mayhew discovered a security exploit in NFS over TLS in tls_alert_recv() due to its assumption it can read data from the msg iterator's kvec.. kTLS implementation splits TLS non-data record payload between the control message buffer (which includes the type such as TLS aler or TLS cipher change) and the rest of the payload (say TLS alert's level/description) which goes into the msg payload buffer. This patch proposes to rework how control messages are setup and used by sock_recvmsg(). If no control message structure is setup, kTLS layer will read and process TLS data record types. As soon as it encounters a TLS control message, it would return an error. At that point, NFS can setup a kvec backed msg buffer and read in the control message such as a TLS alert. Msg iterator can advance the kvec pointer as a part of the copy process thus we need to revert the iterator before calling into the tls_alert_recv.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927baffectedgitb1df394621710b312f0393e3f240fdac0764f968UnavailableNone listed
5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927baffectedgit25bb3647d30a20486b5fe7cff2b0e503c16c9692UnavailableNone listed
5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927baffectedgit3b549da875414989f480b66835d514be80a0bd9cUnavailableNone listed
5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927baffectedgit6b33c31cc788073bfbed9297e1f4486ed73d87daUnavailableNone listed
5e052dda121e2870dd87181783da4a95d7d2927baffectedgitbee47cb026e762841f3faece47b51f985e215edbUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
6.4affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver6.4UnavailableNone listed
6.6.102unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.42unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.15.10unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.15.*None listed
6.16.1unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.16.*None listed
6.17unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed